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Eight seconds and dropping? How to make the most of short attention spans

By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds for millennials to eight seconds for gen Z.

And as the new Premier League season kicked off, UEFA introduced a…

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